~ 440 On Parochial Libraries for the Use of the Clerzy. [Dec.1, 
An account of the Gross Produce of the\dn Account of the Gross Produce of the 
Revenue under the: Management cf th| Revenue under the Management e 
Commissioners of Taxes im Encuann| the Commissioners of Taxes in Scot- 
and Wares, including the Property Tax.) LAND, including the Property Tax, in 
in the Year ending the Sth of January, the Year ending the 5th of Junuary,\ 
1807. 
—ae ee 
Property Tax. 
Gross Produce, be- Gross Produce, 
TAXEs. ing the Gross Re- TAXES. being the Gross, 
ceipt, 1806. Receipt, 1806. 
SP seas oi ea 
ANG Pax <5.) cee) Se oS | ay OS hiamnd seers hy . 50,459 17 53 
Windows shes. .| 2,029,462 1 9 |Windows - a 8S) ef 80,756 19 53 
Houses ad We Bo atihe 594,368 1 103)Heuses ORSON REN Wake eee 53 
Servants . i 949,744 3.6. ZeServantee 2/07) aie ee ee eae 
Carriages... . 350,019 1. 73iCarriages . ene 9,640 0 0° 
Horses for Riding .- 597,552 2 114\Horses for Riding . . 2973995 8 A. 
Horses for Husbandry . 496,750 3 93\Horses for Husbandry . 40,467 18 4 
Horse Dealers . . 8,048 6 53|Dogs APs ok 3,014 11 8 
Dogs BS 9 BESS eu 496,565 >8 03 |Hair Powder. =.) Soe 1 FOR ee 
Hair Powder . po 55,676 7 12\|Armorial Bearings. . . 602 10 0 
Armorial Bearings : 28,211 12 03% : 
Arrears on 10 and 20 per ° 954,359 14-11 
cent. and on Cif 927 1 113 ; 
and Watches Property'Tax . . - “| 249494 7 6 
10 per cent. on Assessed ti Rh EEC Bet 
Pscs, 46 Geo. III, Semmes 
6,018,639 17 6 
5,904,756 9 94 
1807. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
EXTRACT of a@ LETTER from the REV. 
WILLIAM MACKENZIE, tO @ MEMBER 
of PARLIAMENT, regarding PAROCUI- 
AL LIBRARIES. 
HE utility of parochial libraries is~ 
not a new idea, but was acknow- 
ledged by the legislature in the reign of 
Queen Ann, when an act was made for 
the preservation of libraries, erected by 
contributions of individuals, for the use 
of the clergy. Inmy own parish, Smarden, 
in Kent, there is a very good library of this 
kind ; and a very learned divine, who was 
employedio read the Bampton lecture be- 
fore the University of Oxford, a year or 
two ago, declared himself much indebted 
to my library, and that be found in it 
such assistance as he might have searched 
for, perhaps in vain eisewhere in the 
county. 
The advantages, political, moral, and 
religious, resulting frorn the clergy hav- 
ing at all times a free ani easy access to 
° 
a 
a proper collection of books, are incal- 
culable ; and the public would be amply 
remunerated for the expence which such 
an establishment would occasion, by the 
additional security which it would give te 
their constitution and religion. For, in 
an enlightened clergy raised above de- 
pendence and maintamed in dignity and 
respect, will always be found the firmest 
defence against the inroads of anarchy, 
and the destructive attempts of athcism 
and popery. The clergy of the establish- 
ed church are the ordinary channels 
through which the various kinds of useful 
and liberal knowledge are conveyed. to 
the different orders of society; and the 
rectitude and enlargement of the national 
mind will be in proportion to the fund of 
knowledge which their instructors possess, 
It has been remarked, with regret, that 
the clergy of the a day give them- 
selves up too much to the pleasures and 
frivolous occupations of the world; to the 
sports of the field; to conviyial excess, 
and 
